BNY Mellon’s Global Innovation Group to focus on blockchain and innovative technologies
Dec 02, 2016 06:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
BNY Mellon, a leading investment management company, has created a Global Innovation Group in its Treasury Services business in a bid to secure its position as a leader in incorporating new ideas and technologies that...
Local Chinese government grants RMB1.5m to blockchain startup BankLedger
Dec 02, 2016 06:15 am UTC| Digital Currency
BankLedger, a China-based blockchain startup, has received RMB 1.5 million yuan from the government of Nanjing City, the capital Jiangsu Province, 8btc reported. This marks the first time that a Chinese company has...
Big Data & Analytics for Banking Summit to explore blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Dec 02, 2016 05:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Big Data Analytics for Banking Summit hosted by Innovation Enterprise will take place at Times Square on December 7 8 in New York that will explore key areas of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The summit will...
Overstock.com offers additional guidance on ongoing blockchain stock sale
Dec 02, 2016 05:22 am UTC| Digital Currency
Online retail giant Overstock.com, Inc.has offered additional guidance in order to help rightholders and broker-dealers to successfully participate in its ongoing blockchain share rights offering process and fairly...
Finland's central bank delves into blockchain, organizes seminar
Dec 02, 2016 04:39 am UTC| Fintech Central Banks
The Bank of Finland, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, recently organized a seminar to explore the potential applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) in various sectors of...
Blockchain startup Bitmark releases whitepaper on digital property
Dec 01, 2016 12:15 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Taiwan-based blockchain startup Bitmark Inc. announced the release of a new whitepaper on digital property that addresses internet challenges of privacy violations, online piracy and inability to own digital assets. The...
FOW International Awards nominates Russia’s NSD blockchain project
Dec 01, 2016 11:07 am UTC| Digital Currency
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russias central securities depository, announced that its project of developing an e-proxy voting prototype based on blockchain technology has been nominated for the Futures Options...
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